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If the guys at Radioshack will let you try various PCMCIA/USB wifi modules till you get a linux friendly one,....
then persuade them to ADVERTISE IT at the desk!!
I'm sure they'd sell hundreds more!
You could even be cheeky, & ask for commission as their tester

Alternately here's a post I made earlier, for a USB aerial booster device, at around $17 freepost, which uses Realtek RTL8187L driver, which puppy has built-in

That should be self-evident. The r8192s_usb driver was compiled for the 2.6.30.5 kernel in Puppy 4.3,
it's attached to the forum thread titled "Extras for Puppy 4.3 with 2.6.30.5 kernel"
and the attachment contains this field: "Description for Puppy 4.3"

Being a Linux noobie it was a struggle to get it working, Google was my best ally. Together we found this nugget on the Ndiswrapper at SourceForge:
"With ndiswrapper version 1.7 (and later), ......, install both neta5agu and athfmwdl drivers. With that, ndiswrapper will load the firmware when necessary. " which was puzzling because the only version the Ndiswrapper Project was offering for download was v1.55 - the same version 431 includes. And Network Wizard only allows 1 driver per module!!

More searching and we found this, which I concluded was basically what NW was doing under the covers.

Long story short - first I manually installed the firmware driver in Ndiswrapper - athfmwdl, and then I faked-out NW by lying about it in the Ndiswrapper dialogs and letting NW install netA5AGU.

The wizard then did his magic and wlan0 appeared and all was simple clickery from there on - almost.

Network apps failed to connect. Checking with ifconfig - it showed a weird IP-address. It seems NW had naively trusted DHCP in their negotiations.

I confirmed that my D-Link DI-624 router had the latest firmware and as a last resort shutdown all nodes on my home network including the router and cable-modem and rebooted them. When I asked NW to negotiate with DHCP for a new IP address he obliged and all is working.http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=366859#366859

used connection wizard to configure the cardand and it
Picked up 3 network connections on first scan
2 of 3 had no encryption and worked first time, but my BThomehub2 would not connect when WEP was specified as advised on BT site. I eventually specified WAP2 saved the profile and low and behold connected first and every subsequent time

I (because of lack of money) own a Fujitsu Lifebook (circa 1992 I believe) and I got sick of windows on it, so decided to put Puppy 4.31 on. Well, first off, I can't get the damn thing to install, secondly, I can't configure my wireless usb adapter. The install might just not ever work (although it says the files are in fact installed, when I try to boot it says Operating System Not Found) but I should be able to run my wireless on a cd boot, right?

My adapter is an Actiontec USB. It's model number is 802AIn, here's the link to the page:
http://www.actiontec.com/products/product.php?pid=196

I'm sorry I'm not much more help. but I'm really a linux noob when it comes to anything but Ubuntu, or Mint. Any Ideas? I got this guide, but it didn't help:
http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-a-Wireless-Network-in-Puppy-Linux

The system itself has around 64mb of ram, and a 4gb hard drive. No wifi, , no USB2.0, not even an ethernet port, had to purchase a LAN card. (Sad and old, I know. It also doesn't have a battery!)

Thanks in advance for your time!

P.S. no advice like "Buy a new laptop" please. If I had money, I would, trust me.

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